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Trump's Dumb War Is a Test Democrats Must Not Fail Trump has launched an illegal, unjustified war with Iran. Democrats must oppose it — loudly and without apology.

Trump's Dumb War Is a Test Democrats Must Not Fail
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"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Opinion | There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary Trump criticized the Iraq War. Now he’s making the same mistakes.

JD Vance said there is “no chance” the US would be drawn into a lengthy war. But isn’t that what Bush thought before Iraq & LBJ before Vietnam? Wars are risky & unpredictable.The US should engage in them only if it absolutely has to. There is no reason to think this war is necessary. wapo.st/4seF5K1

What OpenAI just agreed to is positively horrifying, on an unimaginable scale actually

I don't think most Americans realize just how big a war with Iran would be. It ain't Iraq, folks. Trump is taking us to war because destruction is coded into every fiber of his being. He's mentally unfit, just like we always warned.

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran A few paths to success, many to failure

This is not a preemptive war. It is a war of choice, a discretionary war.

Destroying the regime’s capabilities is relatively easy, but nothing permanent—as Americans learned in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—is achieved by bouncing rubble and piling up bodies.

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Again: Netanyahu has wanted war with Iran for 30 years.

(And also helped drag us into Iraq)😒

~ The Tennessee Holler ~

Human Costs of War research examines the human toll of U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, veterans, military contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced.

Just a reminder why we protested US actions like this last time.

"An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians."

costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

“In 2003, the road to war in Iraq was paved with lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.

The path to a new conflict in Iran 23 years later has been lined largely with incoherence or silence.”

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.

Paramount, Warner Bros deal would unite film, news and social media forces in the age of Trump

My analysis for NPR:

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Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

US Authorizes Embassy Staff to Evacuate Israel, Urging Them to Leave “TODAY” Meanwhile, reports say that U.S. intelligence assessments find that Trump’s claims about Iran’s missiles are a lie.

The U.S. embassy in Israel told its staff on Friday to leave the country if they wish to do so, and quickly. The instruction comes as the U.S. has repeatedly threatened to strike Iran — despite reports finding that the Trump's accusations against Iran are untrue.

The ocean as system Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere and absorbed by water lowers its pH level, making the ocean more acidic and less able to sustain life. In 2009 a group of scientists included this ocean aci...

Recommended reading: The Ocean as System – Overcoming policy fragmentation in the fight against ocean acidification.
An essay from the Back to Blue Initiative on ocean policy and why ocean and planetary stewardship matters:
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Europe’s energy transition is well underway but it is far from uniform.

In 25 European countries, non-fossil fuel sources now generate the majority of electricity, a clear sign of how deeply clean power has penetrated the system.

PETITION: Choose a clean energy future Sign on now to call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel electricity generation and a new fossil gas import facility.

Luxon's LNG fossil gas import terminal is THE most stupid thing a govt could do in the #climatecrisis (besides trying to restart oil & gas exploration).

They'll fail at exploration.

It's REALLY important that we speak up to stop new fossil gas imports👇
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A victory for decency, reason, empathy, equality, and justice is a victory for these things everywhere.

As with Mamdani in New York, the Gorton and Denton result provides inspiration, and shows we *can* build a better world, wherever we are.

Great news from the UK 👏

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix said it wouldn't match Paramount's revised offer for the storied entertainment company • Dolby ›y David Ellison, Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES (2), ASSOCIATED PRESS By Joe Flint Updated Feb. 27, 2026, at 5:05 am EST

If you didn’t already know, this means wealthy white men and Trump supporters Larry and David Ellison now control CNN. So CNN and CBS are now state media.

This is what Orban has done in Hungary and Putin in Russia: let their autocratic leaders control the media so citizens never see the bad stuff

it’s optimistic to imagine they’ll have those jobs in a year. the first thing they’re going to do is gut the place. i’d consolidate as much talent as i could over the next few weeks and launch my own venture. CNN is dead.

Bill Barr misrepresented the Mueller Report. Mitch McConnell acquitted him twice. Aileen Cannon blocked the Jack Smith report. SCOTUS slow walked the Jan. 6 case. Pam Bondi withheld Epstein files related to Trump.
Donald Trump would be in prison if not for our corrupt system.

Millions of workers — including at Walmart, Amazon, & McDonald’s — rely on food stamps, WIC, and Medicaid, because pay doesn’t cover basics. Corporate profits soar while taxpayers pick up the bill. Low wages aren’t just a worker issue — they’re a taxpayer subsidy to big business.

Cool cool. And we want to take humans out of the kill chain. 🤦‍♂️

And this:
“If you took every true thing President Donald Trump said during Tuesday's State of the Union address and tattooed it onto the genitalia of a flea, there would still be room for the Gettysburg Address. (Depending on the endowment of the flea and the size of the font you were using.)”

JD Vance laughs as Trump refers to Minnesota's Somali community as "Somali Pirates" (low empathy, othering, racism). #BodyLanguageAnalysis #SOTU

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

Republican Lawmakers' Bid to Execute Tennessee Abortion Patients Slammed as 'Christofascism' | Common Dreams "This is about the future of the anti-abortion movement in the Republican Party and the way that they are embracing extremism at a rate that is so fucking alarming," said one critic.

Republican Lawmakers' Bid to Execute Tennessee Abortion Patients Slammed as 'Christofascism' www.commondreams.org/news/tenness...

Trump just said if we could get rid of fraud, we would balance the budget.

Guess he’s taken more bribes than we thought.

The thing about elected Democrats attending the State of the Union is that Donald Trump used social media to call for the execution of elected Democrats mere months ago, like, if you're calling for my execution, I'm not attending your lie-filled speech. That's the only way to project dignity here.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

🚨 An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

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